Department of Physics and Astronomy, School of Arts and Sciences, New Brunswick; Rutgers

Areas of Interest: Chemical and structural complexity has proved to be an critical factor in producing a variety of fascinating properties of solids, including ferroelectricity, large piezoelectric and dielectric responses, and multiferroicity in metals and insulators, as well as quasicrystallinity and high-temperature superconductivity. The research in my group currently centers on the theoretical investigation of ferroelectrics and related materials, and of magnetic and nonmagnetic martensites. First-principles density-functional methods are used both directly and in the construction of first-principles effective Hamiltonians for theoretical prediction and analysis of properties of materials, both real and as-yet hypothetical, in bulk and thin film forms. Department of Physics and Astronomy

Department of Physics and Astronomy, School of Arts and Sciences, New Brunswick; Rutgers

Areas of Interest: Experimental Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics. My research investigates the fundamental theory of strong interaction of subatomic particles - QCD - at extreme conditions of temperature and density. I am particularly interested in high-transverse-momentum particle production as they provide a fundamental probe of the matter produced in heavy-ion collisions, in particular, probing the medium density. I explore jet energy loss suffered by hard scattered quarks and gluons passing through the medium through fully reconstructed jets. Specifically I investigate the dijet asymmetry, evolution of fragmentation functions, jet coincidences and jet shapes. Department of Physics and Astronomy